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The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
RPG 04 March 2021
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante is a narrative RPG that refers in its gameplay model to classic paragraph games. The game is set in a dark fantasy world, and the storyline focuses on an attempt to overcome destiny.
The Wizard's Castle
RPG 31 December 1981
One of the first games released for PCs with MS DOS. The title is a simple text RPG in which, as an adventurer, we enter the castle of a sorcerer in search of treasures and a powerful artifact.
Bitburner
Simulation 11 December 2021
An unusual idle game, Bitburner lets you play as a hacker and discover the secrets of the cyberpunk world using a real programming language. The game is available completely for free.
Vampire: The Masquerade - We Eat Blood
Adventure 16 February 2017
A narrative adventure game from White Wolf Entertainment’s team, based on the popular tabletop game Vampire The Masquerade. It takes place in alternative reality, known as World of Darkness, where many supernatural beings live besides humans. We play as a young vampire, who only recently started to feel the great hunger and noticed changes in his body. Players will help him cope with this new reality and discover the truth about the supernatural world that surrounds him.
Out There: Chronicles
Adventure 07 July 2016
A mobile adventure game developed by French studio Mi-Clos. The story of Out There: Chronicles is related to the exploration strategy game Out There. The title is not a direct sequel but a rather spin-off. Once again the player travels to the distant galaxy inhabited by various alien species. The main protagonist is a lone human astronaut. Out There: Chronicles expands the player's knowledge player about the universe by, for example, explaining who created the so-called Arcs.
When Silence Fell
Adventure 17 January 2019
When Silence Fell is an episodic interactive story told during the Thirty Years' War, a production of Inkborne Tales studio. With the help of a logbook the player learns the fate of Sophie. Depending on the decisions taken, its history will turn out differently.
Roadwarden
RPG 12 September 2022
A text-based RPG with adventure and survival elements. In Roadwarden we take on the role of one of the rangers, and our task is to investigate a mysterious peninsula.
Lifeline: Whiteout
Adventure 24 May 2016
Another installment in a series of mobile adventure titles developed by 3 Minute Games. The plot is centered around a man called V. Adams, who wakes up in a distant corner of the Earth one day, right in the middle of a raging snow storm. Without remembering how he got there, he realizes he has no chances of survival just on his own. However, a special text message system allowing him to contact the player becomes helpful in his attempt to make his way out of that dangerous place.
Simulacra
Adventure 26 October 2017
Original adventure game, in which our task is to find the owner of the found phone. We need to collect information by chatting with her friends, checking the content of files stored on the device, and sometimes fixing corrupted data.
Nanotale: Typing Chronicles
Adventure 31 March 2021
A spiritual successor to Epistory: Typing Chronicles. In Nanotale: Typing Chronicles, the players find themselves in a dying fantasy world. The main character of the game, the archivist Rosalina, travels the distant corners of the land, discovering its secrets. The characteristic feature of this production are the controls, which are based on manually typed verbal commands.
Mage: The Ascension - Refuge
Adventure 16 February 2017
An adventure storytelling game for mobile devices, created by White Wolf Entertainment and Swedish novelist Karin Tidbeck. Mage the Ascension: Refuge is based on a tabletop role-playing game. The production takes place in today's Sweden, and you play as a woman, who recently learned that she's a mage and gradually discovers her powers, which allow her to shape reality. Unfortunately, enemy factions want to use her powers to conquer the magical society.
Choices: Stories You Play
Adventure 22 June 2016
A simple text adventure game developed by Pixelberry (a studio established by former employees of Electronic Arts) known for creating High School Story and Hollywood U. In Choices: Stories You Play, the player gets to learn diverse stories – in one case, he can be fighting for a lost throne, in another, he can become a private detective trying to catch a murderer. The player can also be a student at a school, where teenagers form life-long relationships, while others are looking for love.
Bury Me, My Love
Adventure 25 October 2017
Majd and Nour are the main characters in Bury me, my Love - they are a married couple from one of the Syrian towns destroyed as a result of bombings. The player is required to make choices while reading and sending back text messages and images.
Zarya-1
Adventure 24 April 2017
A text adventure maintained in the convention of horror science fiction. Players direct the actions of four astronauts sent to the Moon to investigate the source of the disturbing signal that reached Earth in 2021. During the game we get acquainted with the text messages sent by our charges (from time to time enriched with graphics stylized on photographs) and we make decisions that lead us to one of the several endings.
The Executioner
RPG 25 September 2019
An R-rated hybrid game combining elements of RPG and visual novels. The players assume the role of the executioner who handles torturing and killing people on a daily basis, and at the same time is trying to take care of his mental health.
STAY
Adventure 16 May 2018
An adventure/text game hybrid, in which you help the amnesiac Quinn. The protagonist has been most likely kidnapped and your task is to help him escape.
Space Rangers: Quest
Adventure 31 August 2016
A text-based science-fiction adventure game from SNK Productions, loosely related to the previous games from the 2002’s series of Space Rangers. It tells a story of mysterious threat that can eradicate all living creatures in galaxy. We play as a space pilot that tries to find out the source of this danger and stop it. We travel across many parts of galaxy, completing plot quests.
Star Trek (1981)
Strategy 30 November 1981
A strategic text game in which the player's task is to defeat a certain number of Clingo ships and prevent them from attacking the command center of the Federation. This is one of the first games released on IBM PCs.
DEVICE 6
Adventure 17 October 2013
DEVICE 6 is an unusual Simogo adventure released for iOS, in which the text narration on the screen not only describes the events, but also the visual arrangement of letters and sentences on the screen represents a map of the explored world. The game consists mainly in finding the way to the destination using this unusual method of navigation and solving logical puzzles.
Sorcery! 3
RPG 22 April 2015
Third entry in the series of fantasy gamebook RPGs, started in 2013 by inkle Ltd.. The story of Sorcery! 3 connects to two previous titles, but it is not necessary to know them in order to play the game. That’s because we are taken to a completely new region, Kakhabad, where a powerful artifact known as The Crown of Kings is hidden in one of cities.
The Martian: Bring Him Home
Adventure 01 October 2015
A text-based adventure game, based on the movie The Martian by Ridley Scott. The Martian: Bring Him Home was released for mobile devices as a premium game. Just like in the movie, the main task is to help the astronaut stranded on the surface of Mars. You play as a NASA specialist, who aids Mark Watney by giving him useful tips and takes care of his emotional state. The gameplay consist of conversing with the “Martian” and choosing the right dialogue options.
Emily is Away
Adventure 20 November 2015
A nostalgic text-based adventure game developed by the independent developer Kyle Seeley. The game calls back to the beginnings of the internet boom and the first instant messengers that made it possible to befriend people online. The objective of the game is to develop an internet friendship with a student named Emily. The gameplay consists of typing commands and selecting dialogue sequences using interface that looks like classic communicators such as AOL Instant Messenger.
Sorcery! 2
Adventure 07 November 2013
A sequel to a unique adventure RPG by inkle studio, and an adaptation of a popular gamebook by Steve Jackson and John Blanche. The story of Sorcery! 2 continues the tale of its predecessor and takes us to Khare, town of outlaws, where The Festival of Thieves is celebrated. Players have to discover the mysteries of the town, overthrow the council ruling it, and stop an incoming invasion.
Sorcery! 4: The Crown of Kings
Adventure 22 September 2016
The fourth (and, according to its creators, final) entry in the warmly-welcomed adventure RPG series from inkle based on Sorcery!, a popular gamebook from 1983. Like the three previous titles, Sorcery! 4 offers a completely new story, so knowledge of the earlier games isn’t necessary to play. Once again, we can create a completely new character or import our old hero from the previous parts of the series. The gameplay of Sorcery!